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Erlkönig: usl.shtmlFrom: diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.humor,alt.tla Subject: tlc Date: 13 Aug 91 07:57:03 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo UNIX[*] System Laboratories (USL) announced today that they will shortly begin support for three-letter commands (tlc) in their operating system. The reason, according to spokespersons kt and dr, is the number of commands that have been added by various suppliers over the years. At the present rate of expansion, all possible command names (cn) in the traditional two-letter form will have been assigned by the end of next week, thus necessitating the new convention. Upon being reminded that most vendors have already suffered crises in their TLA naming schemes and have had to migrate to FLMN, the spokespeople replied as follows: Bah! Verbosity is for our parent company. If we run out of space again, segmentation fault (core dumped) -- [*] UNIX[**] is a trademark of UNIX[***] System Laboratories, Inc. [**] segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it. signature, n.: acm special interest group on studies of the real world. |